First it can be associated with reliability and trust which is the reason it is used in many business logos. Secondly it can be associated with sadness. Royal blue is a deep shade of blue that is sometimes associated with tinges of slight red or purple. Royal blue is a shade that has high intensity and brightness and it is not serene or calming like sky blue shade. Royal blue has historical association with United Kingdom.
Its name goes all way back to the early eighteen hundreds. During the Elizabethan reign in England, only royals were allowed to wear royal blue color. Royal blue was created for a competition to make a dress for Queen Charlotte and the designer created this specific blue tone by using very expensive pigments from Spain. Royal blue has a hexadecimal color code There are also two version of royal blue, that is, queen blue and imperial blue.
Queen blue being a medium shade of royal blue, it is a version of royal blue which is not very much popular. Imperial blue on the other hand is darker and closer to navy blue. The color tends to symbolize confidence, unity, stability, and authority. Sometimes the impression of the color might look like that of black color though the blue shade makes it distinguishable. The most wonderful thing is that the color is globally used by different authorities hence quite common when compared to royal blue.
Royal blue color is a lighter hue of blue while cobalt blue is the medium and bright hue of blue color. Royal blue is purplish-blue color though darker and has a strong chroma. The two colors can look great when paired together as an analogous color combination. The majority of intermediates and professional will use the correct name for the specific color of the paint though as it makes everything so much easier.
When it comes down to the specific color that you use, we would always recommend that you try to go with a color from under the dark blue umbrella but one that has a specific name while also sticking to the same brand for your paint.
This should ensure that you always get a very similar result out of your paint when dry and avoid issues with the different brands using different pigment charts for their paint production delivering a slightly different color. As we touched on above, out preferred dark blue is definitely Prussian blue and it is one of the most common dark blue colors all over the world with it actually being more popular in the arts and crafts space than navy blue.
There are more colors that all come under the dark blue umbrella but we recommend that you stick to either of them two or navy blue. The less popular options from the dark blue paint family do tend to be more expensive and harder to get making it a paint if you run out of your paint tube halfway through the job. That brings our article going over our ultimate navy blue vs dark blue comparison. We we touched on earlier in the article, it is harder to offer a direct answer due to navy blue often being included within the dark blue umbrella.
On top of this, personal preference as well as the goals for whatever you are working on at the time will also come into play too but there are plenty of suitable options. Skip to content Our content may have affiliate links that can result in commissions for qualifying purchases, full details in our privacy policy.
Just one thing: violet , to me, is a specific color or shade. However, there are many different shades of purple! Hello Jessila, you are right. In English, people tend to say purple rather than violet. You perhaps have noticed that foreign speakers of French tend to use "pourpre" a lot until they learn that "violet" is used more frequently in French.
However, for the colours of the spectrum we say indigo and violet. Bye GerryGM. There is no confusing dark blue and navy blue. Navy blue is a hue that is difficult to tell from black when you are more than than a few yards away from it.
It is much darker than the focal or "truest" dark blue. In fact, the phrase "dark blue" is not a basic color term in English, just "blue" is. But "true blue" is the dark blue, at least for me. That is, to the question, "what's the bluest blue, what's the first shade you think of when you hear 'blue'?
I am surprised that a gmd from Scotland equated navy blue with dark blue. Not just because they easily distinguished, but because I thought that the name "navy blue" was inspired by the fact that the U. Navy chose this shade for its official color. Perhaps there is more to the history of "navy blue" than I realized. Moreover, gmd's green, yellow, orange, and blue are far from the focal shades of their hues. I have never heard the term "marine blue" suggested as a regular color term.
I'm a painter but I've never come across "focal shade" or "focal colour" before - are they scientific terms? I will explain "focal" shade below. It's a long and fascinating story. The Blue at the top of the page is close enough to my true blue, me not having other color samples to compare it to. Note that not all of Wikipedia's color term entries contain this Web colors bar -- volunteers needed to paste it into where it's missing!
In fact, indigo seems to be the origin of navy blue.
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